Run to failure: BP and the making of the Deepwater Horizon disaster

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Prologue -- Part one: A new dawn (1. The rise of the sun king ; 2. The whistle-blower ; 3. The first offense ; 4. A slippery slope ; 5. Saving the world ; 6. A wake-up call) -- Part two: Crisis years (7. Danger at the plant ; 8. A tragedy ; 9. Code black ; 10. The fix-it man ; 11. A torrid affair) -- Part three: The reformation (12. A changing culture ; 13. Off the hook ; 14. Run to failure ; 15. A delicate balance ; 16. SOS) -- Postscript.;"Two decades ago, British Petroleum, a venerable and storied corporation, was running out of oiul reserves. Along came a new CEO of vision and vast ambition, John Browne, who pulled off one of the greatest corporate turnarounds.... BP bought one company after another and thyen relentlessly fired employees and cut costs. It skipped safety procedures, pumped toxic chemicals into the ground, and let equipment languish, even while Browne claimed a new era of environmentally sustainable business as his own. For a while the strategy worked, making BP one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Then it all began to unravel, in felony convictions for environmental crimes and one deadly accident after another. Employees and regulators warned that BP's problems, unfixed, were spinning out of control, that another disaster - bigger and deadlier - was inevitable. Nobody was listening. ..."--Book jacket. Prologue -- Part one: A new dawn (1. The rise of the sun king 2. The whistle-blower 3. The first offense 4. A slippery slope 5. Saving the world 6. A wake-up call) -- Part two: Crisis years (7. Danger at the plant 8. A tragedy 9. Code black 10. The fix-it man 11. A torrid affair) -- Part three: The reformation (12. A changing culture 13. Off the hook 14. Run to failure 15. A delicate balance 16. SOS) -- Postscript.